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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013. Celebrate the work of the recently departed Canadian film icon Michel Brault with his lovely light short Geneviève. National Film Board of Canada. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously. All My Film Analyses. My Top 100 Films. The Lincoln Myth on Film. John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. The Child Watching the Show. Can't Stop the Movies.
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: The First Anniversary
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Monday, July 18, 2011. I started this thing a year ago today, to catalog a few cool shots that were swirling around my subconscious. In that time, I've put together over 500 repeated images, sounds, words, and themes. I wasn't expecting it to go this long and I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to keep it alive, so I figure now's as good a time as any to examine this thing. And all sorts of miscellany. Not be inspired by his work. It can also be fascinating to watch a director's work evolve. I look...
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: The Lincoln Myth on Film
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Friday, November 30, 2012. The Lincoln Myth on Film. I'm a drunk, not a historian. I'm not the person with the right credentials to write what I'm about to write, but I'm the only one here so I guess I'll get to it:. Well, it turns out Lincoln. It's possessed with the sure hand a great filmmaker achieves on the south side of a long career, like Bergman in Autumn Sonata. Or Kurasawa in Ran. A film which certainly left a stylistic mark on the opening of Lincoln. The Lincoln Myth is good for that. Shrieking...
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: Lessons in Filmmaking #1: John Ford
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Friday, June 8, 2012. Lessons in Filmmaking #1: John Ford. This ol' blog is always about a hair's breadth away from becoming THE OFFICIAL JOHN FORD APPRECIATION STATION. That is the first and god willing the last time I ever use colored text.). Among others, Bergman, Eisenstein, Spielberg, Satyajit Ray, and Scorsese all fell to pieces for Ford. Orson Welles famously prepared for Citizen Kane by watching Stagecoach. A model of what cinema should be." I agree. A poet, and he knew it. Ridley Scott nailed it...
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: The Pull (John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara have been doing this dance for years)
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Monday, July 19, 2010. The Pull (John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara have been doing this dance for years). Dir Andrew V. McLaglen. Labels: andrew v mclaglen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously. All My Film Analyses. My Top 100 Films. The Lincoln Myth on Film. John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. The Child Watching the Show. Can't Stop the Movies. Your Movie Poster Sucks.
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: 2013 in film
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Thursday, December 26, 2013. Lots of challenging, beautiful films. A strong year for minority representation - including films that weren't about. That like Fast and Furious 6. Or The Best Man Holiday. Which I haven't seen yet. Probably the strongest spread of black cinema since the late 1990s. but the prospect of a long-term sea change in that regard is rocky. Lots of films, both excellent ( Spring Breakers. And terrible ( The Canyons. About the changing landscape of the American Dream. Anyways, here's ...
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: My Top 100
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Sunday, June 24, 2012. Look, I know best-of lists are the last refuge of a scoundrel. But I'm gonna give y'all my 100 favorite movies. It's a Sisyphean affair because I'm sure it'll change in a few months, and forever, as I discover and rediscover the cinema. But for now, here we go (in a format I totally ripped off from Esquire):. 1953, Delbert Mann). Because Rod Steiger's slouchy performance was as good as Brando. 99 The Blair Witch Project. 1999, Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick). 1937, Leo McCarey).
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences: The Perfect Geometry of Garden of Women
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Thursday, October 3, 2013. The Perfect Geometry of Garden of Women. Labels: garden of women. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously. All My Film Analyses. My Top 100 Films. The Lincoln Myth on Film. John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. The Child Watching the Show. Can't Stop the Movies. Your Movie Poster Sucks. Lost In the Movies. They live by night. Turn Off the Limelight.
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Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013. NEW LINK PENDING, SIT TIGHT]. I did a little restoration work on a classic industrial film, Survival Shooting Techniques. As I say in the description:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously. All My Film Analyses. My Top 100 Films. The Lincoln Myth on Film. John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. The Child Watching the Show. Can't Stop the Movies.